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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Japanese Pork Cutlet on Rice (Katsu-don) Recipe

In Japanese, don(丼) means something served on a bowl of rice, often meat dishes. One very popular "don" is katsu-don（カツ丼）, fried pork cutlet cooked with egg, almost like an omelet. Katsu-don is made at home or served in most restaurants.You can put a Japanese twist on the typical pork cutlet. The recipe below is for one serving.

Ingredients:

Boneless pork: 1

onion: 1/4

egg: 1

Batter

flour

egg

breadcrumbs

Sauce

dashi (stock): 1/2 cup

soy sauce: 1-1/2 Tbsp.

mirin(sweet cooking sake): 1 Tbsp.

sugar: 1/4 Tbsp.

Directions:

Pound the meat with a steak tenderizer and season with salt and pepper.

Dip the meat in 1 flour, 2 beaten egg, and 3 breadcrumbs and fry thoroughly in oil at about 160ºC (320ºF).

After frying, cut the pork cutlet into 2cm thick slices.

Slice the onion thinly.

Mix the sauce ingredients together in a saucepan until just boiling.

Pour the sauce into a frying pan and boil the onions.

Add the pork cutlet to the frying pan. Cover with a beaten egg and cook until the egg sets.

Fill a large bowl not quite full of rice and pork and egg on top.

Garnish with a bit of parsley, green peas, or thinly sliced nori seaweed.